'Tony Rosenfeld' on Serious Eats

Jonathan Levitt of the Boston Globe interviews food writer Tony Rosenfeld on his new book, 150 Things to Make with Roast Chicken and 50 Ways to Roast It: According to Rosenfeld, not many consumers roast whole birds, which account for about 8 percent of chicken sales. "Most people are buying their chicken pre-marinated and pre-cooked," he says. "Old-fashioned cooking has been marginalized. I wonder if the day will come when you can't go into the market and buy a whole chicken at all." To encourage more people to begin with a whole bird, the first part of the book focuses on how to roast a chicken, the second on what to do with the cooked meat. Rosenfeld says, "You've... More